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=== Film ===
* One of the theories as to why ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'' wasn't as successful as it was expected would have been because of the protagonist's ethnicity. However, other factors from lack of advertising, to being released at the same time as ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', to [[Animation Age Ghetto|the use of traditional animation]] have also been blamed. Mind you, the movie was still successful as far as animated movies go.
* Danny Glover has tried to raise funds for a film on the Haitian Revolution. However, he keeps getting rejected because the story lacks white heroes. Read about it [https://web.archive.org/web/20130512124049/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_e3UYOiNEhW03rcVTpcB2e15IMg here].
* [[Tyler Perry]]'s movies are not very popular outside the black community, though there is controversy on whether it's because white people don't want to see black movies or because they are of poor quality. ''[[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|And that's all that needs to be said about it]].''
* [[Spike Lee]] gets hit with this, too. His ''Miracle at St. Anna'' didn't get the best reviews (34% at Rotten Tomatoes) but that alone doesn't explain it's incredibly low box office numbers (a little over US$9 million with a budget of US$45 million).
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=== Literature ===
* It's depressingly common—especially in the Young Adult category—for minority lead characters to be obscured or get an outright [[Race Lift]] on book covers, with this trope sometimes passed around as an excuse for doing so. One of the best-known recent examples is the U.S. cover for Justine Larbalestier's ''Liar''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120525094723/http://www.racebending.com/v3/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Liar.jpg Compare the originally planned cover (left) with the finalized cover (right.)]. She blogs about the change [http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/2009/07/23/aint-that-a-shame/ here].
* ''[[A Wizard of Earth Sea]]'' had explicitly non-white main characters, though taking place in a fantasy world, so the book itself is actually a pretty good example of an aversion (fantasy being a very white-dominated genre). But, the TV-movie adaptation gave everyone a Caucasian [[Race Lift]] save for the main character's best friend who remained black, and an [[Animated Adaptation]] done in Japan, due to the way Japanese animation portrays ethnicity in general, made everyone look Caucasian.
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=== Literature ===
* This happened as early as the 1850s with the English translation and publication of ''A Thousand and One Nights''. Those stories have been wildly popular with Europeans and Americans ever since, despite featuring Arabs and Persians as their main characters. On the other hand, since some of these stories were originally Chinese ("Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp," for example), the ghetto was solidly in effect in the context of Arab and Persian societies.
* [[The Kane Chronicles]] by [[Rick Riordan]], who wrote the popular [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] series, has two biracial lead characters. However, note that the leads' race is not immediately obvious on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121007192140/http://rickriordan.com/my-books/kane-chronicles/books/red-pyramid.aspx cover art], unlike the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022091238/http://www.rickriordan.com/my-books/percy-jackson/percy-jackson-olympians/lightning-thief.aspx cover art] for ''The Lightning Thief''. Might be Percy doesn't immediately look white, so most readers are probably going to assume that he is, but he could as well be Asian.
* The title character of the popular Alex Cross series by [[James Patterson]] is black. This is another example of a book where the POC lead character's race is kept ambiguous until after you've started reading.
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